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Jane Porter (3 December 1775 – 24 May 1850) was an English historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her bestselling novels, Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) and The Scottish Chiefs (1810) are seen as among the earliest historical novels in a modern style and among the first to become bestsellers.
Jane Porter (later Jane Clayton, Lady Greystoke) is a fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly film. Jane, an American from Baltimore, Maryland , is the daughter of professor Archimedes Q. Porter.
Chrystabel Jane Leighton-Porter (born Chrystabel Drury on 11 April 1913 – 6 December 2000) was the model for the Second World War Daily Mirror newspaper cartoon heroine Jane which boosted morale during the Blitz. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill suggested that Jane was "Britain's secret weapon". [1]
Tarzan and Jane never married in these films (they do in the books), and the substitution was made to avoid censorship. In the Dell comic books of the 1950s, which combine material from the books and the films, Tarzan's son was also called Boy. When the Tarzan comics returned to a more faithful portrayal of Burroughs' characters in the early ...
Tarzán is a television series that aired in syndication from 1991–1994.In this version of the show, Tarzan (Wolf Larson) was portrayed as a blond environmentalist, with Jane (Lydie Denier) turned into a French ecologist.
Tarzan and the Lost City is a 1998 American adventure film directed by Carl Schenkel, written by Bayard Johnson and J. Anderson Black, and starring Casper Van Dien, Jane March, and Steven Waddington. The screenplay by Bayard Johnson and J. Anderson Black is loosely based on the Tarzan stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Joe Lara as Tarzan, Jane's love interest. Kim Crosby as Jane Porter, Tarzan's ally and love interest. Tony Curtis as Archimedes "Archie" Porter, Jane's father. Jan-Michael Vincent as Brightmore, villain who kidnaps animals for illicit research. Joe Seneca as Joseph, An African storekeeper, and Tarzan's friend and mentor. Sloan Fischer as Some Man